Common Quotes - Page 24

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

It was Indira Gandhi who very much lined up with the Russians. And she was, you know, within the Commonwealth, basically one out on that. The first meeting in 1983 was held in India and I was very off put by her. I just couldn't abide her, basically.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.